The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum (SCCRRMM) is located at 301 Gervais Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, in a building shared with the

South Carolina State Museum The South Carolina State Museum has four floors of permanent and changing exhibits, a digital dome planetarium (opened in 2014), 4D interactive theater and an observatory (both opened in 2014). The State Museum, is located along the banks of the Co ...

. It was founded in 1896, and is the oldest museum in Columbia and the third oldest in the state. Created by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the museum was accredited for the third time by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) in 2020, making it one of only seventeen museums out of eighty-two such institutions in South Carolina, as tracked by the Alliance. Families of Confederate veterans donated uniforms, weapons, flags, and other artifacts. Since its creation, the SCCRRMM has expanded to cover all of the state's military history, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. In 2022 there were exhibits on "Plowshares to Swords: Arming 19th Century South Carolina" and "SC in Vietnam". Originally housed in the

South Carolina State House The South Carolina State House is the building housing the government of the U.S. state of South Carolina, which includes the South Carolina General Assembly and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Located in t ...

, the museum relocated to the War Memorial Building adjacent to the University of South Carolina in the mid-twentieth century. In 1998, it became an agency of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board and moved to the Columbia Mills Building. The museum expanded in 2007, converting the old mill's former cistern into a new gallery. The SCCRRMM earned a national ''American Association of State and Local History'' award for their ''Write from the Front'' program, which collects digital emails and photographs taken by service members while deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The museum received the Confederate battle flag that was removed from the grounds of the South Carolina State House in 2015. It also contains artifacts from various military eras, in addition to its Confederate artifacts. Th
current (2022) logo
makes the words "Military Museum" larger than "Confederate Relic Room".

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External links

Official website